Take It Salvador Dali
Slim Aarons · 1970
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About this work
Take It Salvador Dali, Port Ligat September 1970
Salvador Dalí stands in a shiny purple shirt in front of a large canvas with vaulted architecture and a dark silhouette. He has two walking sticks with carved knobs: one he holds against his chest, above the gold knob of the other he stretches his hand with spread fingers toward the camera. On the left, shield-shaped panels and frames stand on a chest.
The painter Salvador Dalí in September 1970 at Port Ligat on the Costa Brava, among some of his work, in a pose that was his own. Slim Aarons has him stand in the middle in front of the large canvas, so that Dalí himself becomes a figure in his own set. The outstretched hand breaks through that plane, straight at the viewer.
- Photographer
- Slim Aarons
- Collection
- Slim Aarons
- Country
- Spain
- Year
- 1970
- Reference
- 3065079
The photographer
Photographing attractive people who were doing attractive things in attractive places.
George Allen Aarons, born in New York, served as a military photographer in World War II and subsequently transitioned to print journalism. Whereas he previously documented the war, he deliberately chose the opposite subject: the leisure time of the rich and famous, in breathtaking settings.
His most famous photograph, The Kings of Hollywood (1957), encapsulates what he sought in all his portraits: glamour, charisma, and celebrity, captured in a relaxed manner.
Aarons won the trust of the people he photographed, thereby gaining access to some of the most intimate and candid portraits of the twentieth century. In 2007, Getty Images published the book Poolside With Slim Aarons , crowning his legacy.
- Born October 29, 1916 , New York
- Died May 29, 2006 , Montrose, NY
- Hulton Archive / Getty Images
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